Political Science Speaker Series

• Dr. Tiffany Barnes (University of Kentucky) Where are all the women? Legal careers, political careers, and the leaky pipeline of women to office in the United States.
• Dr. Greg Bovitz (CEO, Bovitz, Inc.) Who’s Taking Your Survey? An Inside Look at Online Panels
• Dr. Chelsea Coe (University of California, Merced)
• Dr. Paul Collins (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) The Ideological Balance of American Legal Scholarship, 1852-2022.
• Dr. Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago) Why is Mercenarism Wrong?
• Dr. Jason Davis (Florida State University) Targeted Sanctions and Redistribution. [SPIA Methods Colloquium]
• Dr. Bernard Fraga (Emory University) Reversion to the Mean, or their Version of the Dream? An Analysis of Latino Voting in 2020.
• Dr. Sam Fuller (Harvard University) Radical Partisanship, Antidemocratic Attitudes, and Support for Political Violence.
• Dr. Greg Goelzhauser (Utah State University) The Constitutionality of Police Shootings. 
• Dr. Mark Graber (University of Maryland Carey School of Law) Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment: Our Questions, Their Answers.
• Dr. Jennifer Merolla (University of California, Riverside) Bridging Political Divides: Can Values Messages Decrease Shape Affective Polarization and Support for Compromise?
• Dr. Timothy Nokken (Texas Tech University) Amendment Strategies and Procedure in the US House: Polarization, Partisan Constraints and Member Needs.
• Dr. Rebecca Reid (University of Texas at El Paso) Does Familiarity Matter? The Effect of Exposure to Indigenous Issues and Federal Indian Law on Judicial Decisions.
• Dr. David Vinson (24-7 Intouch)

*Rank and Institution are based on time of talk and may not be current.

• Dr. Bree Bang-Jensen (Assistant Professor of International Affairs) The Clarity Trap: How Treaty Design Undermines Durability.
• Dr. David Cottrell (Assistant Professor of Political Science) Incumbent Pairings in the 2021 Redistricting Cycle.
• Dr. Keith Dougherty (Professor of Political Science) and Emma Bibina (UGA PhD student) Pivotal Voters at the U.S. Constitutional Convention: Shapley-Owen Values Reconsidered.
• Dr. Kosuke Imai (Harvard University) Does AI Help Humans Make Better Decisions?: A Methodological Framework for Experimental Evaluation.
• Dr. George Krause (Professor of Public Administration and Policy) The Loyalty Premium: How Insecure Senate Partisan Majorities Constrain Presidential Appointment Powers.
• Dr. Bryant Moy (New York University) Does Segregation Produce Local Political Leaders? Evidence from White Ethnic Enclaves.
• Dr. Joe Ornstein (Assistant Professor of Political Science) Measuring Latent Quantities from Text Embeddings.
• Dr. Zachary Peskowitz (Emory University) How Well Do Voting Choice Policies Represent Public and Investor Preferences?
• Dr. Kevin M. Quinn (Emory University) Understanding the Average Treatment Effect for the Overlap Population and Its Relevance for Empirical Legal Studies with Special Attention to Natural Experiments.
• Dr. Carlisle Rainey (Florida State University) Power Rules: Practical Statistical Power Calculations.
• Dr. Geoff Sheagley (Associate Professor of Political Science) Online Survey Design 101: How to Run a Survey Without Regretting It Later.
• Dr. Shane Singh (Professor of International Affairs) Winning Isn’t Everything: Parsing the Effects of Voting, Victory, and Loss on Satisfaction with Democracy.
• Dr. Natan Skigin (Assistant Professor of International Affairs) Political Violence as a Vocation: How Politicians Shape Citizens’ Demand for Repression.
• Gabriel Soyer (UGA PhD Student) Access to Rural Credit as Non-Programmatic Politics: Municipal Elections in Brazil.
• Dr. Michelle Torres (UCLA) Beyond Prediction: Identifying Latent Treatments in Images.
• Dr. Garrett Vande Kamp (Assistant Professor of Political Science) Time Series Made Easy.
• Megan Wall (UGA PhD Student) Opt-in or Opt-out? Automatic Voter Registration Method and The Implications for Voter Participation.
• Yuge Wang (UGA PhD Student) Protégé Networks and Meritocratic Political Selection under Personalist Rule.
• Dr. Laura Zimmermann (Associate Professor of International Affairs) A Multi-Modal Approach to Estimating Prevalence: The Case of Labor Trafficking.

*Rank and Institution are based on time of talk and may not be current.